Saxon Shield

The Saxon Shield Pigeon ( Saxon Shield Pigeon ) is a German domestic pigeons breed. Their home is especially Saxony, though it is now spread not only throughout Germany, but also populated pigeon lofts throughout Europe.

Pattern Description

  • Provenance: Saxony.
  • Overall impression: Strong, low-lying field pigeons shape; strongly belatscht, glattköpfig, with round hood or doppelkuppig.
  • Racial characteristics: HEAD: Elongated, curved, front moderately high; smooth with round hood or doppelkuppig. Cover detached, wide dense, ending in rosettes. Elke Schnabel as large as possible, substructure required to grant the view freedom.
  • Eyes: Dark; Rim of the eyes narrow, pale flesh -colored to red.
  • Color of eyes:
  • Beak: Medium, flesh colored.
  • Neck: Medium length, full coming from the body, throat well rounded.
  • Chest: Broad, well arched and stepping forward.
  • Back: Broad and long, slightly sloping.
  • Wings: Strong, long, breitfedrig.
  • Tail: Long, closed, carried almost horizontally.
  • Plumage: Rich developed, but not loose.
  • Legs: depth position belatscht long and dense and just such Schenkelbefiederung.
  • Color varieties: Black, Red, Yellow, Blue and Blue Fahl, all, Blue Clay-colored hammered with white napkins or weißgeschuppt, blue and blue- black or dark Fahl with or without bandages, blue hammered.
  • Colour and drawing: The paint colors pure and brilliant rich blue bright and evenly; Bind pure, as narrow as possible in a straight line, going through, separated from each other; white napkins in blue with delicate dark lacing. Desquamation triangular and regular. - Basic color white; color are the wings signs including the thumb springs ( flaps). With red and yellow, the secondaries may end up with bright mirror when the bandages are pure. 8-10 primaries are white.
  • Severe faults: Weak body; too short, bulky or severely damaged pines; narrow or crooked hood, very small or Stutz Elke, Elke slopes, limited view of freedom; Beak pigment; matte or impure colors, rust or strong pepper in binding or scaling, very short, broad, strongly jagged or broken binding, externally visible approach to third binding, white swing between colored, too little or too many white wings, more than 2 white or missing thumb feathers, color pages, legs or back.
  • Review: Overall impression - Body Strength - Color - Drawing - binding or flaking - slippers - Hood and clove - beak and eye color.
  • Ring Size: 11
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